A 1976 Hawker Siddeley H25B (registration N600AE) went missing on Wednesday, 10 September 2014 after taking off from Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo and registering a flight plan to land in Punta Cana International Airport. Intelligence sources told Listin Diario that the executive jet is believed to have continued to Venezuela, and on to Honduras. The Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) says it does not know the whereabouts of the airplane.
The control tower lost contact with the jet shortly after takeoff. The pilots and sole known occupants of the plane were identified as Venezuelans Fabio Urbina and Hector Rios.
As reported, the 12-passenger airplane was registered to a company based in Dover, Delaware.
As reported in Listin Diario, the pilots had paid US$2,000 for fuel, sufficient for a three- and a half-hour flight. The plane had arrived from Honduras on 11 July 2014.
The airplane is registered in the US Federal Aviation Administration by Aircraft Holding Solutions. (CESAC) told El Caribe that after takeoff, the airplane kept contact with the control tower for 10 nautical miles. Contact was lost after the 70 nautical miles point.
As reported in El Dia, five nautical miles after takeoff from Las Americas, the airplane turned taking a southern route until it disappeared from the local radar. Radar in Florida confirmed the airplane had arrived in Venezuela and traveled on to Honduras.
As reported in El Caribe, the head of security at Las Americas International airport was replaced by Air Force Pilot Rodriguez Goris. Investigations by the CESAC, National Drug Control Agency (NCD), National Police, A-2 and J-2 of the Ministry of Defense are underway, said Aracenis Castillo of the Specialized Corps of Airport and Civil Aviation Security.
El Dia speculates that the airplane could have loaded drugs in Venezuela to transport them to Honduras to be taken to Mexico and then to the US by Mexican drug cartels.
In 2011, an airplane belonging to a Puntacana Group affiliate was stolen from the La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo by persons unknown. The plane was subsequently located in Venezuela, and has yet to be returned to its owners.
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